This is interesting. Apparently state Rep. Eugene DePasquale, D-West Manchester, plans to introduce legislation that would create open primaries in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania, as you probably know, is now a closed primary state -- meaning that you have to be registered in a given party to vote in that party's primary.
I recently weighed in on that topic on this blog. I suspect that if we did institute open primaries, we'd have a lot of instances where both parties would try to sabotage each other by lending their primary "support" to the opposite party's candidate who's least likely to win in the general election.
Unfortunately, politics have a way of getting dirty here in Pennsylvania.
But of course, this is one of those instances where I'd like to be proven wrong, especially since I feel professionally obliged to register as an independent. In any case, I'll be very interested to see what kind of response DePasquale's idea gets in Harrisburg.
Here's the news release:
